I’d highly recommend Walter Russell Meade on Melville’s Benito Cereno, a novella I remember slogging through in English class. Who knew high school reading lists could prove so useful?
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on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForI agree with your assessment, and that experience contributes to my politics today.
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